The Center for Virtual Architecture at the University at Buffalo, the Institute for Distributed Creativity, and The Architectural League of New York present...ARCHITECTURE AND SITUATED TECHNOLOGIES October 19-21, 2006 @ The Urban Center & Eyebeam New York... View full entry
The NYC Masons are giving tours of their main temple - all to recruit new members. Wow, a chance to learn their secret handshake and to become part of the power behind the american throne. Ready for Masionic Rituals anybody? NYtimes View full entry
Official forum of the ABB2006... Forum on City and architecture. Kicked off by: George Brugmans (Directior Rotterdam Architecture Biennial) Gregor Jansen (Director ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe) Zhenning Fang (Art / Architecture critic) Keller Easterling... View full entry
Klaus Biesenbach was named chief curator of a new department at MoMA to focus exclusively on the growing number of contemporary artworks that use sound and moving images in gallery installations. NYT View full entry
In Paris, at the Jardin d'Acclimatation, LVMH's Bernard Arnault, unveils a "dream"; weaved by FOG, a glass facetted quasi-blob, yet to be softened into "a cloud made of glass". "I want everything to look like my drawings," Gehry went on, waving toward large reproductions of seemingly chaotic pen... View full entry
The "audience of eyes and ears" are invited on a trip into a "psychologically complex relationship" with that of a building. "What we search for in a work of architecture is not in the end so far from what we search for in a friend," he writes. "Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of... View full entry
Joel John Roberts pens this editorial for the LA Times, comparing the de facto squatter urbanism of LA's skid row to the 'Walled City' that once occupied the heart of Hong Kong. (related). Up north, in SF, the city has embarked on a new campaign to evict the homeless from Golden Gate park... View full entry
A mugging victim blames WaMu bank for their robber-friendly space layout. LATimes | via View full entry
World Architecture Day is celebrated on the first Monday of October each year. This celebration was initiated by the Union Internationale des Architectes (UIA). On the same day, the United Nations celebrates World Habitat Day to reflect on the state of human settlements. The theme for this year's... View full entry
"Seeing his sites really suddenly provoked us to a conclusion about the importance of transparency -- the importance of demythologizing art and film," said Jane Metcalfe, vice president of the museum's board of trustees. And.. ""Ito's earthquake-engineering experience also recommended him to the... View full entry
writes Christopher Knight, LAT art critic, about the startling new addition to the Denver Art Museum by Daniel Libeskind. He adds, "Nearby, beneath one severely pitched museum wall, a monumental painted metal sculpture of a dustpan and broom, "Big Sweep," by the Pop art duo of Claes Oldenburg and... View full entry
Sci-Arc grad and Japanese architecture genius Hitoshi Abe has been named chair of the architecture and urban design department at UCLA. LAT View full entry
Architecture Magazine whose thin issues were discussed previously--will be folded into another magazine venture called simply Architect. Progressive to Architecture to Architect? ArchNewsNow l MW l previous discussion View full entry
The iconic Capitol Records Building has been sold to New York-based developer Argent Ventures for $50 million after months of speculation. So will it become condos and continue the replacement of working hollywood with 'upscale' living? LAtimes View full entry
German architect and engineer Frei Otto has won the 18th annual Praemium Imperiale prize for architecture. The prize will be presented in Tokyo next month on October 18th. ArchMag View full entry